Emotional Well-being Archives

Sacred Consecrated Spaces Waiting Rooms Places Erraticus

(Martin Lostak)

Consecrated Waiting Rooms

April 19, 2021December 27, 2021 12 min read Derek Parsons Architecture, Emotional Well-being, Essential Reading

Whether we are religious or claim no sense of the spiritual, sacred spaces help us to better confront the transient nature of existence.

Absurdism The Plague Albert Camus The Absurd COVID-19 Myth of Sisyphus

("Bring Out Your Dead" by Edmund Evans)

It’s All a Bit Absurd

February 15, 2021April 28, 2021 12 min read Derek Parsons Absurdism, Emotional Well-being, Pandemic

Amidst a pandemic, Albert Camus’ novel The Plague suggests that we can find courage, community, and hope while embracing the absurd.

Power One Idea William James Pragmatism John Kaag Sick Souls Healthy Minds Erraticus

(Jeffrey Howard)

The Power of One Idea

June 24, 2020May 20, 2021 17 min read Jeffrey Howard Emotional Well-being, Essential Reading, Pragmatism, William James

William James offers a way to evaluate the fruitfulness of ideas by tethering them to the common ground of lived experience.

Sacred-Scientific Psychedelic Future Erraticus Nicholas Mccay Emre Ozturk

(Emre Öztürk)

Our Sacred-Scientific, Psychedelic Future

April 27, 2020May 27, 2020 12 min read Nicholas McCay Emotional Well-being, Essential Reading, Mental Health, Psychedelics, Transcendence

Fears halted research on psychotropic compounds in the 60s. The Second Psychedelic Renaissance is now validating their psychological benefits.

Atomization Social Technologists Solve the Alienation Crisis Totalizing Communities

Can Social Technologists Solve the Atomization Problem?

January 27, 2020April 30, 2021 10 min read Jonah Bennett Atomization, Community, Emotional Well-being, Essential Reading, Liberalism

To address rising atomization and alienation, we must account for radical inadequacy and experiment with more totalizing communities.

How Deconstructing Anxiety Makes Transcendence Possible

November 8, 2019March 1, 2020 11 min read Todd E. Pressman Emotional Well-being, Transcendence, Truth

With the understanding that fear is the fundamental problem in being human, we have our starting point. To pursue this quest, we must fully deconstruct anxiety, reveal its origins and mechanism, and find its resolution.

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